The little minx sure has a lot to say on this subject. Methinks she is projecting her own fears and insecurities about Kafirboy [her husband] onto the Prophet Muhammad [saas]. Whats wrong darlin? Afraid yer hubby might replace you with a newer model? I would. You’re a foul one!

This time we will be dealing with several of her baseless and foolish claims isnshallata’ala.

In the last article we dealt mainly with her claims against the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] marriages with Saffiya and Juwairiyya. This go around she is blabbering on about how Hafsa ibn Umar -may Allah be pleased with her- “reportedly” had a slave girl killed for practicing magic against her. Kafirgirl writes:

Malik Muwatta, Book 43, Number 43.19.14:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sad ibn Zurara that he had heard that Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, killed one of her slave-girls who had used sorcery against her. She was a mudabbara. Hafsa gave the order, and she was killed.

…Hafsa had one of her slave girls killed for practicing sorcery? OK, that tells us a couple of things. First off, Mohammed and his wives owned slaves. Slaves! They partook in the buying and selling of human beings. And that’s a-OK with God. Also, it tells us that these people believed in witchcraft. I love me some Harry Potter, but come on. What kind of idiot believes avada kedavra actually works?

As for her issue with slavery, I suggest she read the following quote by a non-Muslim historian:

Slavery was not abolished by the Koran, but believers are constantly admonished to treat their slaves well. In case of illness a slave has to be looked after and well cared for. To manumit [free] a slave is higly meritorious; the slave can ransom himself by paying some of the money he has earned while conducting his own business. Only children of slaves or non-Muslim prisoners of war can become slaves, never a freeborn Muslim; therefore slavery is theoretically doomed to disappear with the expansion of Islam. The entire history of Islam proves that slaves could occupy any office, and many former military slaves, usually recruited from among the Central Asian Turks, became military leaders and often even rulers as in eastern Iran, India (the Slave Dynasty of Delhi), and medieval Egypt (the Mamluks)… [Annemarie Schimmel, Islam: An Introduction, p. 67].

And her issue with Islam and the fact that Muslims believe in witch-craft, well, this quite an empty complaint. It’s not like Muslims believe in flying unicorns or witches with warts on their noses concocting potions or something. We believe that there are a few “extra-sensory powers” we’ll call them, which can inflict harm on others, such as the aein, also called the evil eye. [Something which many cultures have believed in ever since people have been on this big ole planet earth].

To us, it’s no different then saying, “yawning is contagious.” -Some things we just don’t fully understand, but surely some things can travel through space and be picked up by brainwaves, etc. This is pretty much the extent of Muslims’ belief in magic/sorcery.

We could also use a rational deduction approach that would look something like this: Islam can be proven true by rational evidence and logical thinking. Thus, if Islam can be proven true, what it teaches is also true. Islam teaches that some mild forms of sorcery are true. End of discussion.

As to whether or not someone can be executed according to Islamic beliefs for performing such acts; this comes down to a single point that can be made on the subject: The only way to know who was doing the sorcery is either via direct revelation from God almighty telling us so [and this is not going to happen in modern times since direct revelation from God ended with the Prophet Muhammad], or the person confesses and is found to be of sane mind when making said confession. -The hadith Kafirgirl quoted in Imam Maliks Muwatta [if it is authentic, which I doubt] does not tell us which one was the case, but we can well assume it was one of the two.

So, lets break this down: A person performs an act of sorcery, and either confesses to it or it is revealed by the Creator of the heavens and the earth that so and so is guilty… Lets ask another question before moving on: Why would they do such a thing? Why perform this sorcery? The Answer: To cause harm, no doubt. To inflict injury, possibly serious injury on the victim. The conclusion which a sane person would draw would sound something like this: To let such an act run rampant is certainly dangerous, not just to individuals, but to society as a whole. It risks the life, limb, and mental health of all parties aforementioned and involved. So, on the off chance that some evil person tries to harm someone with some mild form of sorcery, and then is found out by one of the two previously mentioned means, yes, Islam allows them to be executed. But since all of these stipulations are in place, it’s not like Muslims are going to be pulling off some “salem witch trials” any time soon. That is a purely Christian phenomenon, and not a Muslim one.

After her slanders against Hafsa and Islamic belief in general, she moves on to attacking the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] marriage with Zaynab bint Jahsh. No anti-Islam propaganda would be complete without this little gem. It’s a striking testament to the truth of that old saying, “a lie that is repeated often enough, will end up as truth.”

Basically she quotes the historically fabricated account of what happened from At-Tabari. You know: The Prophet one day went to see Zayd, but instead found Zaynab there, and she was partially naked, and he liked her, so he told Zayd to divorce her so he could marry her… i.e. he was moved by lust for Zaynab enough to force her current husband to divorce her.

I really don’t feel like responding to this old wives tale that has been refuted all over high heaven in print and on the net in just about every nook and cranny. I really wish Kafirgirl would do more homework so I don’t have to waste my precious finger power typing all these extra words! Come on! Give me a challenge at least!

And that was just what I found after fooling around on the internet for a few minutes! Imagine if I had actually cracked open a book on the subject! One thing is for sure, Kafirgirl sure didn’t! I wonder if we’d have a smarter girl before us today if she’d actually read a word or two about Islam before abandoning [and subsequently attacking] it!

Oh well, what can ya do? That’s all the time I’ve got for now. Check back for the 5th installment soon inshallah!

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According to a new article in LiveScience and Science Daily, [and published in the April 10th, 2008 issue of Nature magazine] it turns out that the earliest species to split off and become it’s own creature was the comb jelly [and not the simple sponge as previously deduced by Evolutionists].

The reason this deals a death blow to evolutionist claims is because the comb Jelly was a complex little bugger. It came complete with tissues and a complex nervous system. But Lo! and Behold! This vastly complicted creature just popped out of nowhere and started reproducing! Praise Darwin! It’s a miracle!

It’s so inexplicable to scientists in fact, that the scientists who have verified this little fact thought they made a mistake! I quote from the article:

“This was a complete shocker,” says Dunn. “So shocking that we initially thought something had gone very wrong.”

But it turns out their initial thoughts were wrong. Something didn’t go wrong. Something went right. And a startling new evidence has thus come about, proving that the lunacy of the theory that life miraculously formed all on it’s own is just that… lunacy

Part three of my refutation of Kafirgirls attack on the Prophet Muhammad’s marriages. So sit back, relax, and read away.

Her first point: She writes: Mohammed married Juwariya bint al-Harith when he was 58. She was 20. Are you noticing a pattern here? She was a total hottie. Again with the pattern.

Rebuttal: Her insinuation that Muhammad [saas] was marrying for lust or worldly desire will be dealt with in the conclusion of these rebuttals, so be sure and keep checking back.

Her second point: She writes:

The story of how she came to marry Mohammed is really interesting:

Sahih Muslim, Book 019, Number 4292:

Ibn ‘Aun reported: I wrote to Nafi’ inquiring from him whether it was necessary to extend (to the disbelievers) an invitation to accept (Islam) before m”. ing them in fight. He wrote (in reply) to me that it was necessary in the early days of Islam. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) made a raid upon Banu Mustaliq while they were unaware and their cattle were having a drink at the water. He killed those who fought and imprisoned others. On that very day, he captured Juwairiya bint al-Harith. Nafi’ said that this tradition was related to him by Abdullah b. Umar who (himself) was among the raiding troops.

That’s right: Mohammed launched a “surprise attack” against Bani Mustaliq while they were grazing their cattle. They killed any man that tried to fight, and they took the women and children as war booty. Juwariya was the chief’s daughter, and Mohammed “got” her on that day. Nice strategy. Way more efficient than mine. I “got” my husband when I clubbed him over the head and dragged him by the hair all the way back to my cave.

Here’s another hadith that tells you the same thing:

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 46, Number 717:

Narrated Ibn Aun:

I wrote a letter to Nafi and Nafi wrote in reply to my letter that the Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their fighting men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day. Nafi said that Ibn ‘Umar had told him the above narration and that Ibn ‘Umar was in that army.

Get this: Juwariya was already married. Her husband was killed in that battle. But that night, Mohammed “got” her. [expletive deleted]. My brain hurts.

Rebuttal: As usual, she has omitted several facts which are needed to gain a well-balanced portrait of the entire situation.

As of right now there is a fairly balanced Wikipedia article on Juwayriya bin al Harith. I will be quoting from it.

The first point to be noted is that the Banu Mustaliq, the tribe from which Juwayriya is from, was a pagan tribe which was in the process of planning an unprovoked attack against the Muslims. The Muslims thus offensively attacked in order to minimize the amount of casualties.

As per our Sacred Law, once a tribe becomes hostile and is willing to murder Muslims for no other reason than their faith, then they are to be given only two options by the Muslim army: Accept Islam and cease hostilities, or fight. The Banu Mustaliq were given this option, and chose the latter, and demonstrated this by immediately killing a Muslim soldier. [It should be noticed that this was still at the negotiation stage when they began their attack on the Muslim army; they could have easily tried a counter offer or attempted to come to some other amicable agreement as previous tribes had done. However, their response was only violence. It appears that this tribe has such a dirty and rabble-rousing attitude that Muhammad (saas) made the right decision in attacking them first].

From wikipedia: After minimal casualties, the Muslim forces were victorious. Among the many captives was Juwayriya, whose husband, Mustafa bin Safwan, had been killed in the battle. She initially fell among the booty of Muhammad’s companion Thabit b. Qays b. Al-Shammas. Troubled by this, Juwayriya sought a deed of redemption from Muhammad. Muhammad proposed to marry her and as a result freed her from the bondage of Thabit b. Qais and consequently ameliorated the condition of her captured tribe.

The point is, she was once the daughter of a tribal chieftan, and was now facing the humiliation of being a prisoner of war. The Prophet [saas] made her an offer of marriage. The function of this marriage served at least three purposes: One was to free her from bondage. The second reason was to elevate her status, as she was accostamed to being reverred and honored due to her previous position in her former tribe. Had the Prophet [who, at this time was respected and powerful in Arabia] not married her, she surely would have been humiliated for the rest of her life, and lived in the most abject fashion. Instead she was given the great honor of being the wife of the current ruler of Arabia, the wife of a Prophet, and the wife of a great warrior… all considered highly honorable in 7th century Arabia. The third reason behind the marriage was to resolve the animosity that the surviving members of banu Mustaliq had felt after the war with and subsequent defeat by the Muslims.

Furthermore, it was a great act of mercy, clemency, and sympathy on behalf of our Prophet Muhammad [saas]. The entire account is summarized beautifully in the book “Great Woman of Islam” by Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar:

“At the first opportunity [after her capture] she went to the Prophet, and pleaded her case with him. She told him that she was the daughter of a chieftain and used to command. Because of her unfortunate circumstance she found herself in this helpless position. From a throne made of gold she had fallen into dust. …How could she possibly live the life as a slave? She pleaded with the Prophet, to take notice of the pitiful and desperate condition in which she found herself.

The Prophet, was moved by her sorrowful plea and asked her if she would like to live as a free woman and be part of his household if he paid her ransom. She had never in her dreams expected this offer. Moved deeply by this unexpected elevation in her status, she exclaimed she would be more than happy to accept.”

It’s also worth mentioning that, yet again there is no indication whatsoever that Juwayriya was displeased with the arrangement at all. There is not a single statement to be found from her where she is angry or upset with the Prophet Muhammad [saas]. In fact, we only find the contrary. She related hadith to Muslims after his death [including a famous hadith in Sahih Muslim about a certain zikr (litany) that the Prophet Muhammad taught her], and it is mentioned that she was very pious and spent most of her time engrossed in prayer. [Ghadanfar, p.110].

Her third point: She writes:

Safiyya bint Huyayy is the 9th woman on this list. She was another war captive, a 17 year old married girl captured from the Banu Nadir tribe. Her husband, father and brother were all killed by Mohammed’s men at Khaibar. Check out how her husband was killed:

From Ibn Hisham’s “The Life of The Prophet,” via Wikipedia:

Kinana al-Rabi, who had the custody of the treasure of Banu Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (Tabari says “was brought”), to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, “Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?” He said “Yes”. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr Al-Awwam, “Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.

They set a …fire on his chest. He was tortured till he was nearly dead, and then he had his head lobbed off. All on Mohammed’s orders.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 14, Number 68:

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah’s Apostle (p.b.u.h) offered the Fajr prayer when it was still dark, then he rode and said, ‘Allah Akbar! Khaibar is ruined. When we approach near to a nation, the most unfortunate is the morning of those who have been warned.” The people came out into the streets saying, “Muhammad and his army.” Allah’s Apostle vanquished them by force and their warriors were killed; the children and women were taken as captives. Safiya was taken by Dihya Al-Kalbi and later she belonged to Allah’s Apostle go who married her and her Mahr was her manumission.

Safiyya was taken by a soldier named Dihya Al-Kalbi. But when Mohammed heard how smoking hot (apologies to her husband) she was, he decided to pay 7 slaves to purchase her from him. …Safiyya was Jewish. But not for long. She was, of course, converted to Islam. Her dowry was her freedom. Wow. That totally makes up for taking her captive!

Response: A hadith in Sahih Bukhari explains as to what actually happened:

“We conquered Khaibar, took the captives, and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, ‘O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.’ The Prophet said, ‘Go and take any slave girl.’ He took Safiya bint Huyai. A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Allah’s Messenger! You gave Safiya bint Huyai to Dihya and she is the chief mistress of the tribes of Quraiza and An-Nadir and she befits none but you.’ So the Prophet said, ‘Bring him along with her.’ So Dihya came with her and when the Prophet saw her, he said to Dihya, ‘Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.’ Anas added: The Prophet then manumitted her and married her.” Thabit asked Anas, “O Abu Hamza! What did the Prophet pay her (as Mahr)?” He said, “Her self (i.e. freedom) was her Mahr (dower) for he manumitted her and then married her.” Anas added, “While on the way, Um Sulaim dressed her for marriage (ceremony) and at night she sent her as a bride to the Prophet. So the Prophet was a bridegroom and he said, ‘Whoever has anything (food) should bring it.’ He spread out a leather sheet (for the food) and some brought dates and others cooking butter. (I think he (Anas) mentioned As-Sawiq). So they prepared a dish of Hais (a kind of meal). And that was Walima (the marriage banquet) of Allah’s Messenger (pbuh).” (Bukhari, Hadith 358)

As to the question whether Sayyidah Safiya (RA) was willing for the marriage to take place or not, no body’s conjecture but her own words can make things clear. The following narration explains in detail:

“When Safiya came to the Holy Prophet (pbuh), he said to her; ‘Among the Jews your father did not stop in his enmity towards me until Allah destroyed him.’ She said: ‘O Allah’s Messenger! Indeed Allah says in His book, ‘No one will take anyone else’s burden’. So the Holy Prophet (PBUH) said to her: ‘Make your choice, if you will chose Islam I’ll select you for myself and if you chose Judaism, I’ll set you free and send you to your people.’ She said; ‘O Allah’s Messenger indeed I longed for Islam and testified for you even before you gave me this invitation when I came to you. I have no guardian among the Jews, neither father nor brother and I prefer Islam over disbelief. Allah and His Messenger are more dear to me than freedom and to return to my people.”” (Ibn Saad 8/123)

Taking together all the narrations about this event, we come to know that Safiya (RA) had a feeling of affection for the Prophet (pbuh) before they met (Tabarani 19667). When her father and husband were killed in the battle she developed some feeling of hatred for the Prophet (PBUH) for natural reasons but when the Prophet (PBUH) explained to her what all her father did to him (Tabarani 19668) she realized that her father met such an end because of his own deeds (Ibn Saad 8/123) and so her ill feelings for the Prophet (PBUH) completely vanished and she was left with the feelings of love for the Prophet (pbuh) that the All-Wise and Almighty had put in her heart through a previous dream (Tabarani 19667 & 19668).

If the lady herself agreed that her family was a family of tyrants which deserved their fate, and if the lady herself believed the Prophet [saas] to be kind and gentle, who are we to disagree with her?

[For more on this, you can check out the wonderful job that the fellas at Let me turn the tables blogspot did on exposing this common baseless attack on the Prophet Muhammad -may the peace, blessings, and mercy of Allah be upon him- I also suggest reading the article they did about relations with slave-girls according to Islam].

…Part four coming soon, so keep checking back if ye be true fans of the Muslim Superhero!

Yet another testimony of a former Atheist who became Muslim. I think the message of this video is: If you are honestly seeking the truth, don’t just think you know it all after talking to one person. Find more knowledgeable Muslims to speak with and see if they can address your concerns.

As promised, I’m back with my second installation refuting Kafirgirls claims about the marriages of the Prophet Muhammad [saas]. (Dont worry, she hasn’t said anything new. Actual knowledgeable Muslims have known about these issues and soundly answered them a bajillion times before… but for some reason Atheists like to beat a dead horse).

This time I will be dealing with her claim that Muhammad [saas] is oh-so-horrible for marrying a 9 year old girl, and of course I’m referrring to the Lady Ayesha [raa]. Her claim [all expletives deleted] is as follows:

Mohammed married Aisha approximately 3 years after Khadija died. He was around 53 years old. She was 6.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88:

Narrated ‘Ursa:

The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 236:

Narrated Hisham’s father:

Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married ‘Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.

He married her when she was six, and they consummated the marriage when she was nine years old. Know what I was doing when I was nine? Going to school and running around with my siblings. Know what I wasn’t doing when I was nine? Having sex. I was too busy being a kid, playing with Barbies.

A few points need to be mentioned about the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] marriage to Ayesha [raa].

Point number 1: We believe, and all Muslims believe, that Allah [swt] (or God Almighty, for you English speaking people) ordered the Prophet Muhammad [saas] to marry Lady Ayesha [raa]. I know, I know “How convenient.” -But really this is the whole point. This is what it comes down to. We believe the Prophet Muhammad WAS a Prophet. She doesn’t. And if she believed Muhammad was a Prophet, the marriage to Ayesha is a non-issue, because what God orders him to do, he does. IF she doesn’t believe he was a Prophet [saas], then this is the real issue, and not his marriage to Ayesha [raa]. So, again, what we need to ask ourselves before criticizing the Prophet Muhammad [saas] on any issue is, is Muhammad [saas] a Prophet? Then we can come back to the Ayesha [raa] issue later. A good article to get Kafirgirl [and other like-minded Atheists] started on using rational analysis to deduce that Muhammad IS a Prophet can be found here.

Point Number 2: Many countries have arbitrary age limits when it comes to marriage. In Madagascar, a woman can get legally married at the age of 14. In France the age was only recently raised from 15 to 18. In Kenya [predominately Christian] the legal age of marriage is 14. In Taiwan, women can get married at the age of 16. Thailand: 15 with court approval. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Cyprus all allow 16 year old girls to marry [In fact the majority of European countries view 16 as the ‘marriagable age.”] Canada allows 14 year old girls to marry with Judicial consent. In the U.S. it is based on State Law, allowing girls as young as 15 to get married in Georgia, Hawaii, and Missouri. In “special cause” cases, a 13 year old girl can get married in New Hampshire, and in Massechusets a girl can get married at the age of 12 with parental consent! -The point is, with all of this arbitrary crap, how can we figure out who is right and who is wrong? And what are we basing this on? Just pure conjecture, it seems. It really makes humanity look like we can’t get our heads screwed on straight on even the simplest of issues! But, lo and behold, with the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] marriage to Ayesha [raa], this apparently perplexing question was answered for us: A girl cannot be legally married until she has reached the age of puberty. If it comes early, [as in the case with Ayesha] or if it comes later [as is the majority of cases] -either way, puberty=she can get married. This was one of the main purposes for this marriage: To answer a question that we clearly cannot answer for ourselves.

Point Number 3: Mental maturity IS taken into account. Most people don’t know this, but as the great American scholar has pointed out in this video, Ayesha had stopped playing with dolls at the time of her marriage to the Prophet Muhammad [saas]. -This was a sign of womanhood and mental maturity in Arab culture. [There is a hadith, which Kafirgirl quotes, about her playing dolls in the presence of the Prophet Muhammad, but this hadith does not state that they were married at the time this occurred. Considering they were betrothed for a few years before the marriage was official (i.e. consumated) there was plenty of time for her to play with dolls in the presence of the Prophet. But once she left off of this girlish habit, and well after she had experienced her menses, the marriage became official]. To recap, a girl who goes through BOTH physical, AND mental maturity can be married according to our Sacred Law, as per the example set by the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] marriage to Ayesha [raa]. -So while the “great” Atheist countries go crazy trying to figure out what age a girl can be married, the Muslims solved the confusion long ago.

Point 4: The definition of a child is, for the most part, subjective and based more on culture, external influences, and personal opinion than anything. In many Western countries, many 20 year olds could still be considered children, particularly in terms of mentality and entertainment preferences. For example, it’s not uncommon to find 20 year olds still playing video games, living with their parents, living responsibility-free, etc. Yet in many underdeveloped countries, 8 year olds are running the family store and given responsibilities that most Westerners would never give an 8 year old. It all has to do with mentality, and one culture has no right to criticize another, since the entire topic is so subjective.

Final Point: The marriage, by all accounts, was a happy one. Sure they had their occasional tiff, but this is because they were both human beings. They were not angels or Divine in any way, and Muslims have never claimed such a thing. The point I’m making is Ayesha [raa] clearly does not embody the personality of an “abused child.” -She is quite fiesty, as even Kafirgirl points out in her slanderous article, and, after the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] death often speaks of him in glowing terms. Her depth of love and attatchment is beyond question. And as the old metaphor goes, you can’t pour water through a dirty pipe and have it come out clean on the other end. Her passion and admiration for him is a full testament that the relationship, far from being abusive or something Muslims should feel ashamed of, is in fact one of the greatest love stories in human history, unmatched in it’s beauty.

Her final critique of the Prophet Muhammad’s [saas] marriage to Ayesha [raa] can be summarized as an attack on Ayesha and Muhammad [saas] both. She claims that the Prophet Muhammad [saas] treated Ayesha differently, insinuates that Muhammad [saas] threatened to divorce the elderly Sawdah because she was no longer attractive to him [this is based on a story only found in late Qu’ranic Exegesis by scholars, and is not contained in any authentic hadith that I’m aware of, and thus, can be discounted], She also seemingly refers to a hadith where the Prophet Muhammad [saas] reportedly hit Ayesha [An implication of an abusive relationship] -but the link she provides to said hadith brings no such hadith or story, but rather merely a link to a University of Southern California page where they have translated excerpts of Sahih Bukhari [But don’t worry, I’ve searched the entire page and couldn’t find the Hadith she is referencing… maybe later she can actually give us a source for this tale].

I really didn’t want to spend so much time on just one of her claims, but unfortunately she packs so many false allegations and implications into such a small space, which require a bit more clarification than I like to sit and type out. For that, Kafirgirl, I’m mad! GRRR! I don’t like to sit down for massive periods of time, and I’ve been here for far too long untangling your devious little webs of deceit!

Anyhow, I probably will need several more sections to untie the knots and reveal the truth about her hit-piece on the Prophet [saas] and his marriages, so be sure and check back if ye be true fans of the Superhero!

Five months before their marriage, Karen Meek’s fiancé told her that he was becoming a Muslim. Ms. Meek, an atheist, was taken aback.
“I thought he was being brainwashed into something,” she said. “All of a sudden he stopped drinking alcohol. He wanted to pray every day. He stopped eating pork.”

For months, Eric Meek, a lapsed Baptist, had studied Islam without telling her. Now, when he went to work, Ms. Meek poured over his books and videos, trying to understand his faith.

She never expected to be attracted to Islam.

“I grew up thinking religion was ridiculous,” said Ms. Meek, 33, of Lewisville. “I didn’t believe in God. I had no idea how the universe was created and, frankly, didn’t care.”

She said Islam had a logic to it that she couldn’t resist.

“Coming from an atheist background, I had an easier time accepting Islam than a Christian because I didn’t have to unlearn or give up any beliefs,” she said.

After getting married, she prayed for the first time while her husband was at work. She learned how from a book.

“Until this point, I had done everything privately, without telling him,” she said. “I did not want to join a religion just because he did. I wanted to discover it on my own.”

She and her husband began meeting with other Muslims to study the Quran, the holy book of Islam. Eventually, she made her profession of faith.

Her choice of religions stunned her parents.

“One day she came and she wearing a scarf and a dress down to her ankles,” said her father, Ray Allred of Carrollton. “I was shocked.”
He said he was estranged from his daughter for a time because of her religion. They’re close now, though he fears for her safety since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

“You want to love your child, but when they do something so foreign to you, it’s very difficult,” he said. “I’d give anything if she hadn’t adopted this religion.”

Those comments were echoed by Jane Barrett of Flower Mound, who’s Ms. Meek’s mother. She said she especially dislikes the hijab, or head covering, that her daughter wears.

“Karen is such a pretty girl with beautiful hair,” she said.

Ms. Meek said she understands. After becoming a Muslim, it took her many months to adopt Islamic dress.

“I would wear the hijab places where people didn’t know me,” she said and laughed. Now, she wears it all the time — even to work, where she is an accounting clerk for a restaurant chain.

She said embracing Islam has caused her to see life in a new way.

“Going from not believing in God to believing in God is amazing,” she said. “Islam opened my eyes to so many things I had taken for granted, mostly that life is a gift.”

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https://muslimsuperhero.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/hilarious-story-of-a-brother-who-was-raised-atheist-and-after-investigation-became-muslim/#respondWed, 28 Apr 2010 20:07:17 +0000http://muslimsuperhero.wordpress.com/?p=86

This is good for a laugh… one of the more hilarious conversion stories I’ve ever heard! His parents raised him as an Atheist, but he went on a quest studying all religions until he finally found his home: Islam, the religion of Truth.

The silly goose is at it again with a new diatribe against the Prophet Muhammad [saas]. This time she isn’t focusing on the Qu’ran, but instead is focusing on Muhammad’s [saas] plural marriages.

She is using the age-old attack against the Prophet [saas]… accusing him of being a womanizer, lecher, pedophile, etc. Her vile and low-blow [and false] exclamations begin with a baseless claim that the Prophet Muhammad [saas] married Khadijah -his first wife to whom he remained devoted to alone for their entire 25 years of marriage- only for the sake of greed and worldly success. She was wealthy, after all, and the Prophet [saas] was an orphan with little to no clout in the Arab tribal society at that time.

Her baseless ideas and refutable claims are quoted below [but I edited out her filthy language, as usual]:

Mohammed was around 25 when he married his first wife, Khadija bint Khuwailid. She was 40 years old at the time. Whoo! Cougar! Khadija was a business woman, and she was extremely wealthy… She had inherited her father’s merchanting business, which, by the way, she operated. He worked for her. My kinda lady!

As long as Khadija was alive, Mohammed took no other wives. A lot of Muslims say this is because he was such a sweet and faithful man. They’ll argue that all of his other marriages after Khadija’s death were purely for political reasons. That’s why he didn’t have more than one wife while she was alive.

Know what I think? I think old homegirl wore the pants in that relationship… So he stayed married to only her for about 25 years, until she died.

This is a convenient way for Kafirgirl [and idiots like her] to explain away one of the most profound proofs of Muhammad’s [saas] lack of desire for worldly gain [be it women, wealth, etc.] … if she can “prove” that Muhammad [saas] only remained devoted to Khadijah because he risked losing worldly status, [and consequently, after her death married a number of women, whereby showing his “true self” as I’m sure she would like to think] then the entire case of those who wish to portray Muhammad’s [saas] marriages in a sensitive light is demolished.

However this argument is refuted by a couple of points. First, if the Prophet Muhammad [saas] was simply a “closet lecher” as she is implying, then why wouldn’t he have had his way with numerous women before Khadijah? After all he didn’t marry Khadijah until he was 25 years old. -And he was not an unattractive man, as the hadith literature informs us… and the society at the time surely would have allowed for this… Even Ayesha [raa] recounts in a hadith in Sahih Bukhari that Arabia before Islam was quite the haven for premarital and adulterous [and even incestuous, according to other reports] sexual activity, mentioning the confusion that often arose from the numerous illegitimate children that resulted from such promiscuity. His fellow Arabs certainly wouldn’t have looked down upon him… He would have had a free pass…

But yet we have it from his own confession that he never once committed any sexual act until his marriage with Khadijah. We may believe his claim of chastity quite easily, because had he been fibbing, and had he been previously promiscuous, his enemies who would later compose stinging invectives against him would have surely used his past indiscrepencies against him. However, the sources are silent, no evil-doers brought this point as a mark against him, and none of his faithful followers -who recorded all sorts of reports about him and from him without hesitation- ever mention any sexual indescretion on his part pre-Khadijah.

The second point that needs to be made in this regard is that SHE [Khadijah] offered to marry HIM [not the other way around]. She even gave her reasons, according to one source, stating, “I like you because of your fair-dealing, your uprightness, good character, and truthfulness.” -Even the most embittered historian accepts that Muhammad [saas] had a fairly spotless record pre-prophethood. He was nicknamed Al-Ameen [The Trustworthy] and it seems in keeping with logic that many women would be attracted to such a man. But in the end, the proposal he accepted was from Khadijah, a woman 15 years his senior, twice widowed, and moving in to her maturity. I think we can’t help but admit that his motivations for marrying her were the same reasons she gave for marrying him, namely, her good and pious character.

In going through Kafirgirls posts, I’ve found a number of common complaints against the Qu’ran that reoccur [amidst her barrage of foul language, bitter and whiney sarcasm, and psuedo-intellectual garble]. Thus I will answer the most repetitive of her objections on this page. Be sure and check up on this blog from time to time, as I imagine I will be updating it in the upcoming weeks/months.

1. God is conceited/arrogant.

After she copies a verse of the Qu’ran that talks about the Sovereignty of Allah [swt], His Power, His Majesty, His Might, etc. in one of her posts, she then claims that God is conceited. This is a very common tactic and oft-occurring complaint of hers throughout her posts.

This is really a very empty and unsatisfactory argument against the truth of Islam. Why should God, the Creator of the Heavens, the Earth, and all that is between them, be humble? Is that really befitting God?

After all, one of His Divine Names according to a Prophetic Hadith is “Mutakabbir” [The Proud One]. But think about all He has done. Does He not deserve to be proud? We humans with the capacity for abstract thought are probably among the least impressive of His creations, when we consider, you know, the entire universe and whatnot. Yet, even we humans, among the least of His creations, are still pretty dadgum impressive in terms of what we are able to achieve, and that is a testimony to God’s creativity, power, and wonder.

BTW, I find it ironic that Kafir Girl accuses God of traits she also clearly possesses. [I mean, come on, she is one of the most arrogant and conceited people on the face of this earth. She even sells t-shirts with her blogger-tag on them for petes sakes!]

2. The Qu’ran is repetitive.

She often expresses annoyance at the fact that the Qu’ran often repeats stories, phrases and concepts [such as the story of Moses, the fact that Paradise has flowing rivers, that God is great, etc.]

In this complaint she really allows her ignorance of even fundamental Islamic beliefs to shine through.

If she were here I’d give her a good shake and say: Listen darling, the Qu’ran is not meant to be a book that you sit down and read from cover to cover. It is a collection of Revelations that are meant to be recited orally. Even the word “Qu’ran” means “recitation.” It was compiled into a codex simply for practical purposes. I like to think of it as a series of Divine Telegrams from God to Muhammad/mankind, arranged not in narrative form, but in the convenient order of longest chapter to shortest chapter.

Now I used the word “telegrams” very deliberately in that last paragraph. The metaphor can be understood as follows: Lets say you are cleaning your house one day, and you happen upon an old box of letters that your grandfather sent your grandmother while he was off to war. They are in no particular order, and the dates on them are missing. So you arrange the letters from longest to shortest and sit down and read. Would you criticize your grandfather and call him an idiot simply because he reiterated a few stories throughout the correspondence? No. Most likely you would understand that he was simply emphasizing certain key points that he wanted your grandmother to clearly understand and accept.

Furthermore, many times I’ve found that things we believe to be repetitions in the Qu’ran actually aren’t. The story appears the same at face value, but when we cross-examine, we see little elements of the story are added in one version but omitted in another, or the wording is different, which gives a new interpretation or sheds new light on the point the Author is making. It really is an ingenious method for getting people to examine exactly what it is the Qu’ran is trying to say.

It’s really sad to see someone is so involved and engaged in disproving the truth that they stoop to such erroneous [mis]understandings.

Anyhoo… that’s all I’ve got for now… check back later if ye be true Superhero fans!

]]>https://muslimsuperhero.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/kafir-girls-quran-faq-and-my-answers/feed/0muslimsuperheroMuslim becomes Atheist, but then returns to Islam as Dae’yahttps://muslimsuperhero.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/muslim-becomes-atheist-but-then-returns-to-islam-as-daeya/
https://muslimsuperhero.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/muslim-becomes-atheist-but-then-returns-to-islam-as-daeya/#respondWed, 28 Apr 2010 14:18:33 +0000http://muslimsuperhero.wordpress.com/?p=63This is the testimonial of Brother Nouman Ali Khan, a former Atheist who reverted back [that’s right BACK] to Islam, alhamdulilah! We hope one day to see Kafir Girl doing a show like this one inshallahta’ala.